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Arrear

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Ar`rear´
adv.1.To or in the rear; behind; backwards.
n.1.That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; - commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
For much I dread due payment by the Greeks
Of yesterday's arrear.
- Cowper.
I have a large arrear of letters to write.
- J. D. Forbes.
In arrear
behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.


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Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Elizabeth.
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le Prince, that king of fops, to take his arm when talking over the fashions; and for those least eager to pay never to dare to leave their accounts in arrear with him; for Master Percerin would for the first time make clothes upon credit, but the second never, unless paid for the former order.
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